Remember The Flap Over BC Liberal Insiders Working The HST Propaganda Catapault?

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Well, well, well….

It looks like the propagandists, and those who hired them, past and present, have even more ‘xplainin’ to do.

Jonathan Fowlie, in the VSun, has the story (after a nasty, protracted FOI fight).

Here’s a small chunk of Mr. Fowlie’s lede:

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government planned to use Olympic nostalgia and free iPads to persuade a reluctant public to support the harmonized sales tax.

“The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games gave British Columbia a foundation to build a stronger province and create new opportunities for workers and families,” said a 10-page the government had planned to mail to each home in 2010, not long after the Games had finished…

{snippety doo-dah}

…The government never sent out the pamphlet, shredding all copies not long after having spent $780,000 to have them designed and printed…

{snippety doodle-dandy}

…One part of the pamphlet contained a contest giving people a chance to win one of three Apple iPads, valued, it said, at about $750 each…

Heckfire.

Why didn’t they just take us to the pub and buy us a bushel of beer or two as the anti-Tax Shift revolt started cranking up for real?

What’s that you say?

Oh, right.

Codswallop like that is actually illegal.

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